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With those words, a Catholic bishop has called for mercy for a convicted killer sentenced to die: As Virginia prepared to execute convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad, Bishop Paul S. Loverde of Arlington called for mercy and urged that Muhammad’s sentence be commuted to life in prison without possibility of parole.  In the needles of…

They’re making history, and they’re from across the pond: The Traditional Anglican Communion’s province in Great Britain has become the first to accept Pope Benedict XVI’s Apostolic Constitution for Anglicans.  All its members voted unanimously to come into communion with Rome under the terms of the new provision, which allows them to retain their Anglican…

After voters in Maine shot down a law allowing same-sex marriage yesterday, the USCCB has now offered a warm round of applause.   The bishops’ statement reads, in part: Yesterday on November 3rd, the people of Maine voted to uphold the true nature of marriage as the union of one man and one woman. The voice…

Those of us who saw the riveting episode of “Mad Men” last night were reminded that, on the day after the Kennedy assassination, life went on — but barely.    In the episode, there were uncanny parallels to 9/11, in the way television coverage dominated our lives on that day, and in the shared sense…
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